Ghost Hunters and the Syfy channel have finally come out with something of an announcement about the 2009 Halloween special. As you know, Halloween is when the Ghost Hunters 'usually' do their big hours-long live event from a suspected haunted location.

After some controversy over last year's episode which included some (supposedly) suspicious footage of Grant Wilson getting his jacket collar tugged several times, rumor had it that the Ghost Hunters team were begging off doing another live episode this year. Frankly, I find the whole thing extremely odd. If someone is questioning your credibility the last thing you want to do is to cave into the pressure and call the whole thing off. I can understand them being angry at some of the stuff that has been written about them lately, but for a team that supposedly runs INTO the fray while others run out, I'd think the guys would suck it up and dive in, harder, faster and bigger than ever before.

Well, it seems that the TAPS team is indeed doing some version of a live episode for Halloween night. An announcement on the Syfy.com website states:

Now it's your turn to lend TAPS a hand by picking the Ghost Hunters episodes that will appear in Syfy's Viewer's Choice Marathon this Halloween. Pick up to twenty of your favorites below, then tune in Saturday October 31 at 9am/8c to see which ones made the cut. Join the hunt and make this Viewer's Choice Marathon the eeriest of them all.

Send Jason and Grant your questions for a chance to see them answered live on the air this Halloween during the Ghost Hunters Live event, featuring guest hunter Meat Loaf!

Interesting, no?

So, we are indeed getting a live Ghost Hunters episode, although the length of it is still unknown at this writing. I suspect it won't be one of their marathon investigations, as they are asking viewers to select their favorite episodes for a marathon re-run extravaganza, like we can't see these same episodes over and over on the Syfy channel on a weekly basis anyway. Harumph! Special guest hunter Meat Loaf will rejoin the team (good call), and from a preview that I saw a couple of days ago, it will include the announcement of the winners of the Pair-anormal contest as well.

I'll keep you posted as I get more details, but in the meantime, I'm really glad the Ghost Hunters are going live once again, Halloween just wouldn't be the same without the TAPS team.